It seems that the original thread has been hijacked by the Linux
enthusiasts :-) so I'm restarting it now from here.
Here is the content of the original message:
I think that we should provide an easy way to download (by ftp) a
compressed archive to the ones that are just interested in evaluating
the product. *Minimal* prerequisites should be necessary to download and
run OFBiz in this way so that users with a low bandwidth connection to
the Internet, and running on a box with Jdk 1.5 installed would be able
to download (possibly in multiple chunks) a compressed archive, unpack
it and run "ant run-install".
Of course, as soon as the version 4.0 will be officially released, they
will have a file to download; however I don't think that the release 4.0
will be the right version to consider for an evaluation... the trunk is
the best option and we should encourage people to see it in action.
A simple solution is this: create a weekly or, better (as suggested by
Jacques), monthly svn snapshot (svn export), then compress it and
publish it somewhere in a very visible area of the main page of the
website; we could also provide a link to the "main new features of the
month" (e.g. http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs).
What do you think?
Jacopo
